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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1946
Page
2
Mary Taworth advises a 30 year old private secretary living with parents on whether to marry a 50 year old widower with a 21 year old daughter. She urges evaluating personal happiness and compatibility over parental pressure, noting age difference matters only if the woman feels it. She recommends focusing on present happiness and未来 prospects.
The Beethoven club hosts a Thursday 10 am session in YWCA rooms with Cornell professor Jacques Jolas guest lecturing and conducting. He discusses concerto and ensemble study and directs a Vivaldi arranged Bach concerto performed by a violin group of Mrs James Taylor, Mrs Blanche Lawrence, Miss Virginia Ohmann, and Miss Barbara Butterfield, plus a four piano ensemble led by Mrs Otto Ambroz, Mrs Virginia Moore, Mrs H D Miskimen, and Mrs Marshall Hickman. Admission is small and guests are welcome.
New officers were named to lead the newly organized Tanda group of Camp Fire girls at their meeting Monday night in the home of their guardian Mrs. Althea Davis 947 Twelfth Street NE Susie Drakos is president Betty Croyle vice president Kay Evans secretary Elaine Byse treasurer and Donna Taylor scribe Mrs Josephine Taylor is sponsor
Miss Lucille Funkey will address the Credit Women's Breakfast Club at the Y M C A Thursday morning. She will recount her Red Cross experiences during the 19 months she spent in India.
The Pythian Sisters sponsor a card party at the Bungalow of the Electric Light Company on Friday evening at 7 30. Table and door prizes will be awarded. Take own cards.
The Tawasi Camp Fire group met Monday at Immaculate Conception church for a party. Games were played and refreshments served. Girls on the entertainment committee were Mary Joan Redel, Jean Greene and Dolores Maher.
At LaGuardia Field Johnson and Sinatra drew 75 boby socks fans with Johnson favored two to one. Fifty mobbed Johnson while the rest surged Sinatra. Jack Dempsey also attended but received no special attention.
The American Legion auxiliary to Hanford Post No. 5 met for a program and business session. Entertainers included Cedar Rapids Woman's club trio and soloists. They reported 780 members, district leadership in Cedar Rapids, and a $25 Red Cross drive donation. Carpet rag sales sent 46 pounds to Knoxville Veterans hospital. Members donated 145 hours to Red Cross and ordered 2,500 additional poppies for hospital use.
Dr and Mrs E R Lambert former Cedar Rapids residents now in Iowa City left Tuesday for San Francisco. Dr Lambert will continue orthopedic work at the University of California. Mrs Lambert, Eugenia Kelly, is the daughter of Mr and Mrs M J Kelly of 2029 Washington Ave SE. Lambert is son of Mr and Mrs B J Lambert of Iowa City. Dr Lambert had been studying in Iowa City.
Twenty eight U I veterans and families will live in Hawkeye Village by March 15 as ten trailers are set for occupancy next Friday with three more each day after. Leases were mailed. Delays due to material shortages and manpower slowed completion of both Hawkeye Village and Riverdale trailer camps.
Velma Marie Minor married John Robert Ramsey at St. Patrick's church with Rev. Donald Peters officiating. The ceremony featured white snapdragons and carnations, a white satin gown, and a bouquet of white gar dens. The couple planned a Chicago honeymoon after a reception at the bride's home.
The record notes that illuminating gas appeared in the United States at Newport Rhode Island in 1818 and reached New York in 1823, two years after Baltimore first successfully installed it, marking early urban adoption of gas illumination.
Special to The Gazette Palo officers of the newly organized American Legion post were installed Monday by Thomas Wiley of Walker. Elected officers include Commander Charles McClurg Vice commander Howard Hopker adjutant Edwin Booth finance officer Warren McClintock chaplain Louis Sanders historian Clifford Mathers Jr sergeant at arms Willard Sanders. The post will meet the first Monday of every month.
A column discusses avoiding curdling in custards by careful heating and pre-warming milk, plus a deviled crab recipe with buttered shells, mushrooms, and crumbs. It includes quantities for a six serving dish and steps to bake until golden, along with a separate vegetable side of celery onion and peppers finished with lemon rind.
Notice to stockholders of Iowa Electric Light and Power Company Cedar Rapids Iowa announces the annual meeting on Tuesday April 9 1946 at ten o clock in the forenoon in Room 200 Security Building Cedar Rapids for the election of directors and other business. Secretary Cc Woodward signs the notice.
The Murray Hill area west of the city was rejected as a trailer site by Frank S. Collins, a Federal Housing Authority engineer, who cited the land’s steep grade making sewer installation impossible. Mayor Frank K. Hahn and housing chairman Henry Haegg had presented several sites, but Collins refused.
Chicago FPHA would decide on site for 80 trailers promised by a government agency. The school board offered the location at its Monday meeting and asked Mayor Hahn to consider crowding at elementary schools when choosing the site. Murray Hill lies between Eighth Avenue and Highway 30, three blocks south of Cleveland School. Before the war Florida competed with Cuba in cigars and cigarettes, Florida’s annual volume reaching 1,398,176,57.
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